'The US is the foremost power when it comes to creating and applying "color revolutions". America invented the know-how and has the best experts in this area. Political scientist Mateusz Piskorski gives RT expert insight into how revolutions are being planned, coordinated and financed.'

'And thus the Brits crow ... again. Or to put it more precisely, the Anglosphere power elite that is apparently behind much of this weary world's destruction and bloodshed. Why do they "allow" the release of this article on a functionary media of their own control (the BBC)? Because "they" are interested in ensuring that developing country politicos get the message. The Brits are back and if you don't listen to 'em, you could find yourself dead and lying in a meat freezer for three or four days until your body is dumped in the desert in an unmarked grave. The message couldn't be clearer. A New World Order is headed your way. And you'd better cooperate. The warning has been sent. That was the reason as well, in our view, for all the Gaddafi videos that were floating around the Internet. Right now, the elites have turned to violence and authoritarianism to try to damp the effects of what we call the Internet Reformation. But from what we can tell, it didn't work the first time, and there's no reason to think it will work now. People won't voluntarily obey just because they might end up dead, buggered and dumped into an unmarked desert grave. Violence, long-term, is not a relevant solution to social control. It can work for a while but eventually, belief systems need to be inculcated. The best slaves are the ones who don't know they are enslaved. Otherwise, long-term, it doesn't have the requisite impact.'

'Here is how Cameron "rules." He goes and talks to the Queen. And then the Queen calls the top powers of London's City and asks what she should do. And they tell her. And she tells Cameron. And Cameron tells other trusted individuals. And then the UK mainstream media pretends that the policies being prescribed and followed are the product of a democratic government when they are not. This is all done on a larger scale as well. All of the great banking families' enablers and associates get their marching orders from the top ... somehow. They fall in line, implementing the strategies throughout the West. The result is that somehow major governmental decisions throughout Western "democracies" end up favoring policies that inevitably extend one-world government. -- Let the system, in all its wretchedness and excess ... COLLAPSE! It is not worth saving. It is a system run by the elites and for the elites. You, dear reader, are just an afterthought. It has nothing much to do with free markets, this obscene system. It is mercantilist, administered by an unelected power elite that got its start in the City of London and has spread around the world. This is the "vampire" that is much written about. It has nothing much to do with Goldman Sachs, however. Or not at its root. It is a central banking phenomenon.'

'History will record that an Arab Spring swept across the Middle East and Northern Africa and turned dictatorships into Islamic democratic republics. History will also show, we tend to believe, that the West has been challenged to reshape this radical Islamic surge along more "democratic" lines. It's all a lie, of course. It's all "directed." The 20th century appears to us to be "full on" directed history and right now the same appears for the 21st. There's plenty of evidence these modern "revolutions" were spawned by the Anglo-American elites, determined to continue their advance toward one-world government. Various groups, affiliated perhaps with the CIA, were set up to promulgate "revolution." AYM is one such American/globalist movement and obviously has ties to the US state department and large US corporations. Now the "revolution" has come to America and is masquerading as Occupy Wall Street. -- In the 20th century one could foment world war. In the 21st that's a lot harder because of nuclear weapons. It's one reason the elites have turned to the amorphous, phony war on terror. But it's not enough, not at all. They need something bigger. That's what's going on in our estimation now. They're building something bigger.'

'The one-world conspiracy is succeeding to the degree that it is because it has found a way to marry Money Power to an ever-expanding one-world government. It intends to run the world like a private fiefdom in which a handful of people will be kings while everyone else will be either dead or zombified slaves. Just as importantly, we speculate there is likely NO operative religious element at the core of the one-world conspiracy, not even "Satanism" or "Illuminism." People who are worth tens of trillions of dollars and are directing history are not likely to be exceptionally religious in our view. They are more likely to USE various belief systems and to exploit them to achieve their goals. They are more likely to believe they ARE gods than to worship one. Putative belief structures can be useful, though. They can be used, for instance, in an intimidating way. Illuminati symbolism is increasingly used in this way, in our estimation. See, there is a REASON for Lady Gaga and the Supreme Court in Israel. A certain kind of "messaging" is taking place – and it's aimed at us!' -- Pied pipers are piping

'"He was a mass hypnotist much like Barack Obama, George Bush, Adolf Hitler, Bibi Netanyahu and other modern political puppets who rise to the top in modern politics by brainwashing the masses. Once the masses come under their hypnotic control they create false conflicts and wage wars in which millions of good men are misled and sacrificed. These wars are fought to make obscene profits for the military-industrial complex in every nation, put governments into debt to international banksters, reduce the population, and build a global totalitarian state." – Saman Mohammadi, The Excavator -- It has never seemed to us probable that Khomeini led an Iranian revolution from France, where he was secreted – actually not secreted but in plain view. This is the M.O. of the elite. Lenin was similarly sheltered and then injected into Russia in a sealed train like "a bacillus." Same with Khomeini. Apparently, on the plane headed back to Iran he groused to the assembled journalists about how much he hated the country and its inhabitants. Too bad. He had a job to do. It's all about directed history, baby. Why is it important? Because these people starve human beings and start wars to get their way. They don't commit murders; they seem to commit genocides. And they're getting ready to do it again!'

'Dominant Social Theme: There is a limit! These greedy thugs on Wall Street need to be taxed to an inch of their lives. And if we get taxed the same way, well, darn it, it'll be worth it. -- If there is any single thing that shows Occupy Wall Street is a controlled opposition, the idea that its ideas resonate within weeks with the US Congress and the larger global power structure should at least give one pause. OWS has called for a moratorium on student college loans. Now President Barack Obama is moving a bill through Congress to give students relief. OWS has called for mortgage relief and that's on its way, too. OWS has called for a transaction tax on Wall Street trades, and now THAT bill is being moved in Congress. Watching OWS-types, the mainstream media and the political classes (under the control of Money Power) perform their elaborate dance is sort of amusing, or it would be if the consequences weren't so dire. It's not enough that the elites control money. They have to have access to everybody's trade information as well. That way they can control markets even more than they do and reap even more money by front-running the market than they already do. At the very least, a transaction tax for America is the beginning of a back-door VAT – a value added tax of the sort that the elites have been aching to saddle the US middle class with. There can never be too many taxes, after all. The middle class is to be ground into dust with these taxes.'

'It is most interesting that stock markets reacted negatively to the idea that Greeks could decide their own future in terms of EU austerity measures. This is surely a dominant social theme – that the market renders unemotional verdict and decides in favor of the more successful reality. It does no such thing. The global stock market, as created by the Anglosphere elites, is profoundly undemocratic and unfree. Having evolved amidst an ever more authoritarian order, today's markets and those who are influential in them have a vested stake in the current, wretched system. People speak of free markets – especially when it comes to equities – the bottom line is much different. How is it that markets react to government doings and government finance when many of these events reduce freedom and entrepreneurship? The only answer is that stock markets around the world are set to behave a certain way. The inputs are terrible; the outputs are often disastrous. In fact, the idea that markets – especially stock markets – are bastions of capitalist energy is increasingly a misguided one, an elite promotion. These days, stock markets are mostly a way for elites to cash out at the top of the business cycle, leaving the middle classes stuck with devaluing and even bankrupt enterprises.'

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'The central banks, especially the Fed, have never allowed big businesses to go bust. Especially, the central bankers have NEVER allowed commercial banks – their distribution arm for phony money – to fail. Go to almost any major city in the West or even in the developing world and all you will see in the downtown is banks. Banks as far as the eye can see, and their signage on all the tallest and most important buildings. Banks. Banks you never heard of. Banks. Banks are the biggest bubble of all. The Western world's financial system must be salvaged, we are regularly told. Not a single bank must be allowed to fail or all else will fall down about our collective heads. It is nothing but a dominant social theme. The system is gong to fail, most likely – and perhaps that's been the plan all along. The people running the world's central banking economy aren't stupid. They put the current system in place and they know it's unstable. Thus, they knew the day of reckoning would eventually come, and perhaps now it's here.'

'Though narcissism demands the right to self-identify, narcissists are often unable to do so because they don't know what it is they want to be. Who am I? What are the rules of my identity? So people look for shortcuts, like modeling oneself after another existing character. But the considerably more regressive maneuver is to define yourself in opposition to things. What do the protestors want? Can they articulate it meaningfully, not in platitudes or "people over profits" or "more fair income redistribution" soundbites? They can't tell you because they don't know. They can, however, yell at you what they don't like, and the louder they yell it the more they hear it themselves. If I hate the protestors, I'm on Wall Street's side, and vise versa, no further branding, let alone thought, is necessary. And now you have a quick way to decide if you hate me.'

...when the oppressive entity is so poorly defined (e.g. Wall Street, “the banks”, corruption) these protests always and without fail turn into protests against the police. ...iphones at the ready, praying someone maces them so they can get a video out of it. Here’s a clue that this is a pathologic narcissism, the nihilistic kind that 17 yo boys have when they threaten to kill themselves if their girlfriend leaves them: I actually agree with the protestors about Bank of America in principle, but because they are putting their identity ahead of the cause and are making it about themselves, I find myself hating them more than Bank of America. Their arrogance and entitlement drives me away from them, into the arms of their enemies. I’m hardly alone in this. Either they are not aware of this effect, in which case they are merely idiots, or the are aware of this effect and do not care.'

'Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.'

'2b. “The cost of the drug test is the responsibility of the individual tested.” But if you are clean you get reimbursed. Would you pay to fail?' -- 'The largely irrelevant debate about whether poor people take drugs (yes) or whether this is state intrusion (yes) deliberately avoids exposing the true systemic corruption of the process: commitment not to identifying, and then solving, actual problems; but a society insisting that appearances/narratives/ideology are paramount.'

'Mrs Merkel has cancelled a high-profile trip to Russia on September 7, the crucial day when the package goes to the Bundestag and the country's constitutional court rules on the legality of the EU's bail-out machinery. If the court rules that the €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) breaches Treaty law or undermines German fiscal sovereignty, it risks setting off an instant brushfire across monetary union. While the bill is likely to pass, the furious debate leaves no doubt that Germany will resist moves to boost the EFSF's firepower yet further. Most City banks say the fund needs €2 trillion to stop the crisis engulfing Spain and Italy. Mrs Merkel's aides say she is facing "war on every front". The next month will decide her future, Germany's destiny, and the fate of monetary union.' -- Implausible deniability is implausible.

'“We’ve got a nice four weeks of thinking Libya represents a triumph of liberty before the situation begins to deteriorate and some new form of authoritarianism inevitably asserts itself,” said Michigan-based architect Wes Reinhorn, adding that while he was looking forward to the nation potentially serving as a model for other Arab countries, he would eventually realize the situation in the region was very complex, and any hope he had of Libya transforming things for the better would presumably fade away by October.'

Max Schumacher: "You need me. You need me badly. Because I’m your last contact with human reality. I love you. And that painful, decaying love is the only thing between you and the shrieking nothingness you live the rest of the day." -- Diana Christensen: "Then, don’t leave me." -- "It’s too late, Diana. There’s nothing left in you that I can live with. You’re one of Howard’s humanoids. If I stay with you, I’ll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You’re television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You’re madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you."

'...what if the "Awakening" in all of its chaos was meant to set up a more polarized Middle East that would confront Israel in an regional war? We know the elites like to follow the road map of religious texts (which predict this sort of thing) because it provides a kind of cover. (Religious texts in this regard may act as a kind of predictive programming.) A war between Israel and the "rest" of the Middle East might entail nuclear weapons and the amount of people killed would make Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor skirmishes. Yet, the drumbeat for war continues. And would the result be a resurgent Israel that won new territory through enormously superior firepower? Would such a war, then, put the West in charge of the Middle East in a way it's never been before? Would it provide the fuel for even more Draconian rights crackdowns at home? Would it somehow place the elites closer to their goal of global governance?'

'Dominant Social Theme: Supporting the glorious Arab Spring is important. -- There are five countries that we count as successfully destabilized by the West (America in particular). They are Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt and the Ivory Coast. The money shows where the West wants to go. ...there is a sudden scramble to bankroll efforts to steer these destabilized countries in the "right" direction. This is the stated goal then – regulatory democracies not Islamic republics. It is a predictable dominant social theme. Destabilizations have taken place and the citizenry has been freed! We do not put it past Western elites to be playing an even more subtle game. It is possible that Saudi Arabia is supposed to be destabilized to usher in a non-dollar, global currency. It is possible that the creation of a string of Islamic republics is still the ultimate goal (the better to support the "war on terror"). It is even possible that general chaos and regional war is the preferable outcome.'

'...But after finally waking from the 10 year nightmare of the Osama Bin Laden fable, are the public willing to go straight back to sleep? Or are they going to start questioning the official narratives that are cemented into place in the wake of every large-scale event, narratives that always support more government intrusion in our lives, expanded wars of aggression around the globe and an ever-expanding police state?...' -- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

'CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday. In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that “justice has been done” as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said Kenobi resisted and was cut down by Lord Vader's own lightsaber. He was later dumped out of an airlock.'

'Al Qaeda was at least in its initial terrorist stages partially a promotion of Western intelligence; bin Laden was the scion of a family with close business ties to the Bush family and apparently a CIA asset to boot; he was a very sick man a decade ago (at least) and the idea that he survived to 2011 is doubtful in the extreme. There is no doubt the war on terror is a manipulated war. For the elites, money does not matter. They control central banks around the world and can print as much money as they wish and fund whatever programs they wish... The US$3 trillion drained from Western coffers to pursue illusory wars and phantom enemies is in fact a net-positive from the point of view of Western elites. With their fear-based promotions foundering, Money Power has increasingly fallen back on ... authoritarianism. And this means that the world itself must be thrown into chaos and poverty lest the middle classes look too closely at the false narrative being constructed around them.'

'The Anglo-American elite uses war as a main tool of control. But sometimes it is more effective than at other times. We believe that the Western elites may have miscalculated as regards their world-spanning ambitions in large part due to the Internet that is destroying their fear-based schemes as fast as they can be applied. If so, war (society-reshaping war) may not be an option at the moment. A "long war" may be all they can manage (one which involves various societies in low-intensity conflicts over a long period of time), and long wars (as opposed to a 20th century world war) are merely a way of controlling social change, not radically reconfiguring global society. Why settle for a long war? Because the West is topping into the abyss financially and the elite lacks the tools to radically reshape perceptions thanks to the new communications technology. ...the elites are having a good deal of trouble controlling the message these days.'

'How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the "terror mastermind"—who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly—has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight? Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education.' -- Riveting tale, chap!

'One of the main functions of politicians – and journalists – is to simplify the world for us. But there comes a point when – however much they try – the bits of reality, the fragments of events, won't fit into the old frame. ...the fundamental problem with this simple story of good versus evil is that it does not permit a proper critical framework that allows you to properly judge not only those you are fighting, but also your allies. -- America and the coalition invaded Afghanistan with the simple aim of destroying the terror camps and setting up a democracy that would allow the country to be ruled by good people. But in the ensuing decade they have been tricked, spun round and deceived by the complex web of vested interests there. And their inability to understand and deal with this has led to the rise of a state crippled by corruption in which it is impossible to know who the "good" people might be any longer.' -- YOU

"Y'all can't take pictures of a nigga that's already dead? You scared he gonna come back and haunt you or some shit?"

"You're all happy, satisfied, and you're all going to write that in your papers for the rest of the schmucks."

“We have the fundamentalist-driven type of philosophy that is being implemented from within the chambers of the city of London and anchored under the cloak of the Western style of democracy. -- The forces that are on the ground, these globalist forces that have the intent of bringing in line the various nations and states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government, they will continue their efforts, whatever it takes – force or propaganda through the mainstream western media sources or the subversive movements of the CIA... -- Americans should be more concerned with their own government and growing authoritarianism which is mounting within the US and the soft police state that is being imposed."

'According to Variety, Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (the Academy Award-winning team of 'The Hurt Locker') have been getting ready for a Bin Laden film. With the recent news event, they have just found themselves an ending for the film!' -- Cool story bro!

“We have the fundamentalist-driven type of philosophy that is being implemented from within the chambers of the city of London and anchored under the cloak of the Western style of democracy. -- The forces that are on the ground, these globalist forces that have the intent of bringing in line the various nations and states that need to be molded together in order to create a globalist government, they will continue their efforts, whatever it takes – force or propaganda through the mainstream western media sources or the subversive movements of the CIA... -- Americans should be more concerned with their own government and growing authoritarianism which is mounting within the US and the soft police state that is being imposed."

'For the average person who has lived through the phony 'War on Terror', a post-9/11 age of fear that has swirled around the persona of bin Laden, it may be quite confusing to now read headlines like Libya: the West and al-Qaeda on the same side. Indeed the rebel forces trying to topple Gaddafi admittedly include thousands of al-Qaeda forces while enjoying total backing – weapons, planes, funding and forces – from the U.S., Britain, NATO and other allies.' -- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ’just to keep people frightened’. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him. -- Nineteen Eighty-Four

'The public supposedly "demands" these spectacles. But we would argue they would be produced whether the public wants them or not. Surely it occurs to such manipulated people at some point in their mature lives that they are fundamentally expendable? The REAL power elite – a few unfathomably wealth banking families and their corporate and religious facilitators – never orchestrate such shows for themselves. They never have to go through such soul-killing publicity. The logical solution to this sort of painful exposure would be to remove it. But it doesn't happen because the monarchy itself is a dominant social theme and one that is useful to an Anglo-American power elite. The monarchy MEANS something. In fact, it is a kind of elaborate billboard. The Royals are not valuable for themselves but as elaborate metaphorical personifications. They are the message bearers of a certain kind of instruction: Some people are born to rule; others are born to serve.'

'Achieving new heights of hypocrisy, the U.S government is hyping the threat of Libyan-backed reprisal terror attacks inside the United States, while launching air strikes in support of so-called “protesters” who ... are in fact Islamic fundamentalist Al-Qaeda cells who want to impose sharia law in Libya. -- The fact that the establishment media, particularly the BBC, which has aggressively pushed this “humanitarian” hoax in its rapacious cheerleading effort for the conquest, is parroting the narrative that this is a just war, when in reality it is about helping Al-Qaeda terrorists to carry through a coup d’état, is the ultimate hypocrisy. It’s a hypocrisy made more revolting by the fact that [2+2=5] who so vehemently opposed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are now willing to offer their enthusiastic backing for military attacks having bought the sickening lie that the likes of the United States ... has now suddenly developed a conscience for human suffering.'

'...forget the talking head experts on cable, as the real story is not about Libya but rather about Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and the danger the color revolutions present to Anglo-American interests in the Middle East and the continued world reserve status of the US dollar. What happens now in Libya is anyone's guess because it has served its purpose well and the delays provided the time necessary for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf council to invade tiny, insignificant Bahrain. The nation's only importance is the opportunity for use as an Iranian bridge to Saudi oil. The small island nation produces little oil, but like the major oil producing regions of Saudi Arabia, it is home to a regional Shiite majority which could ally with Iran. Washington and London, controlled by Anglo-American elite financial interests have decreed that the color revolutions must end at the edge of the Sunni/Shiite oil producing regions. -- Remember, it's all about the dollar...'

'The most reliable caged Americans in cable news give their trenchant, homespun insight into current events.'

'#1. Youth In Revolt: The New Revolutionaries: a liberal, pro-democracy group of consumerists concerned equally with global warming and expressing themselves, discreetly lip-synching the words to Lose Yourself as they march on Freedom Square. -- #1b. The Young Are Mad As Hell, And They're Not Going To Take It Anymore. Sorta: They're not angry, they're not outraged, they're... socially conscious? -- #2.The Mad Dictator That Has To Go: Oh, he may be a nutjob, but once he's out – what, exactly? He's not a lone nutjob. There was an entire government in place there... -- #3. The Power Of Social Media: The intended subtext of this myth isn't that facebook and twitter aided people in their revolution; but that those were somehow the cause of the revolution. That the technologies themselves "need" freedom, they force freedom, they cause freedom, by their very existence. ...when the medium becomes the message, there's no message.'

And a whole new reality was set into motion.

'Cryptome told a researcher for Panorama to go away until deeper research had been done. ...instead a "celebrated" reporter was assigned to do the interview and fumbled and faked knowledgeability as we watched him turn to others in the background for guidance to Cryptome accusations about mishandling and trivialization by the media of the Wikileaks furor... ...nobody advising the interviewer appeared to know much about the depth and breadth of Wikileaks-like initiatives, only how to milk the controversy for lucrative headlines as the media-manufactured-celebrity Assange has been willingly seduced into doing. There is much more of black information traffficking being ignored thanks to the Wikileaks entertaining diversion beguiling sappy-vain media, bloggers, lawyers, panelists, moviemakers, prosecutors, publicity agents, publishers, and other celebrity-mongerers eager to promote valiant public service to "spill secrets" to gull wealthy donors and game consumers.'

'[Meyssan's] main point: The revolution, manipulated by Western intelligence agencies, has begun to spiral out-of-control. The Western media, as Meyssan points out, has attempted to portray the Jasmine Revolution as a valid expression of a people's aspirations toward freedom. The elite continues to struggle. With the advent of the Internet, the most precious commodity of all, the ability to fully shape a promotional message has been all but lost. We think [Assange] and WikiLeaks may in fact be an elite promotion of sorts. Meyssan believes that the hacker "Anonymous" is a kind of psyops as well. We've pointed out this possibility, too. We note that the mainstream media tried to draw a linkage between the Tunisian revolution and WikiLeaks – but this interpretation has not generated a consensus. In the 20th century, the [elite] have had no problem establishing such a narrative (WikiLeaks supposedly exposed Ben Ali's corruption and sparked a revolution); in the 21st century they cannot.'

'Is the war on terror a success? The Anglo-American elite needs an enemy if the authoritarianism that is rising in the West is to continue – because despotism (and globalism) is more easily created when there is an outside enemy. But fighting against 100 Al Qaeda soldiers in Afghanistan is not anybody's idea of a substantive threat. And the Taliban are evidently and obviously fighting an occupying force. What if the powers-that-be had decided to do what they could to expand the Muslim threat – and thus expand (in the Western mind anyway) the specter of resurgent, militant Islam? A cynical idea isn't it, dear reader. ...even close mainstream observers of the ongoing "war on terror," live with this cognitive dissonance without showing much consciousness of it – which is strange itself. ...the West is supporting the world's leading promoters of militant Islam all the while proclaiming undying resistance to "terrorists." The Western power elite always utilizes the Hegelian dialectic...'

'Cryptome: Wikileaks often uses the technique of withholding releases to build suspenseful drama for a bombshell release. This is done when a current campaign is flagging as it has with the very slow intravenous drip of cables -- meant to be deliberately narcotizing and addictive, with hyper-drugged commentary about the cables stupidly brayed under influence of the mostly pharma-grade placebics. The teasing taunts about releasing a bank's files is another technique that has been used, consistent with previous roll-outs of much ado about little, bait and switch. Julian bragged about this illusory effect yesterday. As you know, he issues highly quotable statements as a manner of speech. His bloviation is masterful advertising or entertainment or political grandstanding or preaching depending on your bias. Julian's messianism is daftly expert, in the vein of precursors idolized for their performances of rap, bling, ... tell-all books, political deceptions, scandalous sexual misbehavior.'

'The original merits of Wikileaks have been lost in its transformation into a publicity and fund-raising vehicle for Julian Assange as indicated in the redesign website which billboards him. There will be those who continue to milk the promise of Wikileaks, arguing vehemently for its protection and continuation, but not acknowledging in its current configuration sheltered by main stream partners it is not a threat or threatened -- standard bloviation of the media to magnify its importance. The shift of focus to Bradley Manning and Adrian Lamo indicates the Assange threat angle is withering and needs to be goosed with journalistic and lawyerly flim-flam so common to awaken readers and juries dozing with disinterest. A lasting benefit of the death of Wikileaks is that other initiatives have learned from its experience to do better and not settle for the comfortable entombment of Wikileaks disembodied by Julian Assange on a country estate perfect for mourning in luxurious high style.'

'The Wau upcoming release on WL donations will be merely a limited hang-out to test public gullibility. Then more if there is an outcry of disbelief, and then a bit more to see if that will calm the crowd, but never a total disclosure of sufficient magnitude that will initiate a criminal investigation of fraud, extortion, money laundering, bribery, threats -- ... -- as Assange clearly stated was his goal at the beginning of WL. Who else was behind the scam remains to be revealed. ...so-called non-profits are used to launder money and earn a cut (generous donation, paid as expenses, legal fees or hard-to-trace bags of cash...) for doing so. There is obviously a profit-sharing arrangement (publicity to attact donations) between Wikileaks and the media making boodles of money from the daringly scandalous "publication of classified information," always a big moneymaker above and below public view. Leaks were invented for that with evermore secrets to feed the stream.'

'Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and hinted that the complaints are the result of a U.S. “smear campaign” targeting WikiLeaks...' -- Aww! Just one more leak, Mom, pleeeeeease!

'Assange has denied any wrongdoing, and hinted that the complaints are the result of a U.S. “smear campaign” targeting WikiLeaks...' -- Aww! Just one more leak, Mom, pleeeeeease!

'The mercantilism that drives most major industry has been revealed – the elite's operative construct which is to build and centralize government power in order to pull its levers for its own benefit. Under no circumstances can government be blamed for what has occurred. Government is to be the solution, not the problem. If there WERE problems with government oversight, then those problems need to be corrected and government will need MORE power so that abuses will not occur next time. (Of course, actually they will – and they will be worse.) Scapegoats have to be found. Blame has to be re-established in the right places. Yes, with central banking under attack, with government generally revealed in the 21st as incompetent and corrupt, with regulatory democracy itself being questioned, the elite is desperate in our view not to lose its mercantilist privileges. What better way to distract the populace than the spectacle of a vast "insider-trading" scandal.'

'It is true, as we have maintained in the past, that the dollar will be hard to dislodge as the world's reserve currency so long as the Middle East continues to demand dollars for oil – and as the US is the world's leading military power, with a predominant strategic base in the Middle East, it is hard to see how that state of affairs will be upended. And yet ... as we have asked recently, what if the Anglosphere itself wants to dislodge the dollar? What if it does have strong relationships with China (and Russia) – and much of the apparent tension is so much shadow play? We asked these questions after the failure of the US to impose its will on the G20 regarding the dollar-yuan relationship. ...we will even make the argument (in support of this article's hypothesis) that the various yuan swaps are designed not only to destabilize the dollar (thus creating a demand for a new currency like the IMF's hypothetical bancor) but are providing building blocks as well.'

'NEW YORK—Following an audition that "knocked [their] socks off," organizers of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade announced today they would allow the al-Qaeda Marching Band, the musical performance division of the international terrorist organization, to participate in the 84th-annual holiday event. "Macy's has no affiliation with the political agenda of al-Qaeda and in no way endorses its stated goal of destroying the imperialist secular West," said Bob Carlson, a spokesperson for the department store. "But their choreography is just—wow. The costumes, the sass, the showmanship. These guys brought their A-game, and the drum line is just sensational." Al-Qaeda Marching Band director Ibrahim al-Faisal told reporters being selected to perform in the parade was "a great honor," adding that his group looked forward to wowing the crowd and setting off a dirty bomb in the heart of Manhattan.'

In Soviet America...

"This is an endless cycle of stupidity."

'Dominant Social Theme: We have our differences, but please calm down. If you just stay calm a little longer we will solve your problems.'

'The most fascinating part about this entire process was not the verbal broadcast of my opt out status, nor having my crotch swept by the latex-covered back hand of some anonymous TSA agent, but rather the curious fact that I was the only one opting out. Although I must have watched at least a hundred people go through this particular security checkpoint, there wasn't a single other person who opted out of the naked body scan. They all just lined up like cattle to have their bodies scanned with ionizing radiation. To me, that's just fascinating. That when people are given a choice to opt out of being irradiated, they will choose to just go along with the naked body scan rather than risk standing out by requesting to opt out. It's odd that people trust the government when the government doesn't trust them at all. If the government treats you like a criminal, a terrorist, a lab rat and a vaccine depository, doesn't that only prove they don't honor you as a sovereign individual?'

'Dominant Social Theme: Isn't it amazing how real-life imitates the movies? The strangeness of modern Big Science goes well beyond its funding stream. As those at CERN grow more desperate for results, the rhetoric surrounding the experiments grows more promotional. This is in fact how the power elites' dominant and sub-dominant social themes are produced. They begin with ideas in controlled scientific journals and then are rebroadcast through the controlled elite mainstream media and if possible, may be recycled once more on TV or in the movies. Finally, once public fervor has been aroused, the ideas are guided to the public trough for financing with taxpayer dollars. Is Big Science indeed merely a smokescreen for Big Military expenditures? Is the Hadron Collider actually being used for more specific and targeted war research? What exactly are they promoting? And why?'

'What do you know about Lady Gaga's concert schedule? The riots in France have kept her from honoring several commitments in Paris, and there were a good many articles on the subject (generally) last time we checked Google. But we could not find a single one on a topic we consider nearly as important—the G20 meetings in Korea in early November that may help determine the rest of the world's economic history in the 21st century. Sub dominant social theme: "Please read up on Lady Gaga because she's an interesting entertainer and economics and the G20 are boring subjects." From OUR point of view, the world is increasingly approaching a tipping point and people who wish the best for their families and also for their portfolios will want to watch what is unfolding in Korea. If the West and the IMF can pull it off, then true global governance moves one step closer—maybe a big step. If they do not, then a 100-year's worth of planning may begin to be in jeopardy. This is important, is it not?'

'The News Media had a central role in pulling off the 9/11 psy-op. The operation involved airing on television a substitute, computer-generated version of reality. It has temporarily succeeded to sell to the world the preposterous tale of 19 young terrorists using hijacked airliners to attack the USA. This longstanding research has established the falseness of the images shown on LIVE TV on 9/11 – as well as all the subsequently released video material. The 9/11 hoax is definitively exposed by method revealed.' -- Woah! You may agree or disagree, can validate or invalidate – but one thing is certain: this is a MUST watch.

'As the historian Robert Darnton has written, “The marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the Internet.” But there is something else at work here, in the outsized enthusiasm for social media. Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. ...weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism. [Social media activism] doesn’t require that you confront socially entrenched norms and practices. In fact, it’s the kind of commitment that will bring only social acknowledgment and praise. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. There are many things that networks don’t do well.'

'These are fairly astronomical costs (pardon the pun) and we question how long governments laboring under "austerity" will be willing or able to foot the bill. From our modest point of view, these projects are a kind of expensive propaganda. Their purpose may be scientific, but the end result is to impress on average people that scientific investigation in the modern era has simply become too expensive and complicated to pursue without multi-billion dollar government investments. It is the Western power elite that wants to project this concept. Western elites, for at least the past 100 years, have labored mightily to produce the effect that nothing in life can be accomplished individually or in small groups. It takes an EU or a US or a Chinese communist republic to produce truly worthwhile results. It is, in fact, a way of de-motivating entrepreneurs and reducing scientific animal spirits.'

'Welcome to billionaire Jimmy Lai's newest gamble: Animated news. When news agencies didn't have footage of scenes from the car crash involving Tiger Woods, Lai's team raced to put together animation dramatizing the incident, garnering hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube. The end product drew derision, with critics saying there's a credibility gap because the animated features mix real news footage with dramatizations of often unverified versions of events. Every day they churn out about 20 reports, often a combination of animation and real video, for the Web sites of Lai's Apple Daily newspapers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. "You have a lot of missing images, in the TV, in the news reporting," Lai said. "If this is an image generation or image era that we are in, that is a big gap we are filling."'

'What would Lukacs have done if the border patrol agents were all robots? Narcissistic thinking never works on robots. A person may completely ignore how another person is thinking, but everyone always understands a robot's perspective. With robots, it is explicitly understood that they are operating on a flowchart, that they have a definite way of thinking of their own that has nothing to do with who you think you are. You can't force your thinking on a robot. So Lukacs wouldn't dare disobey anything upon which he cannot impose his will. That's why he's fighting border agents, and not the government.'

'Response to the memorial from members of the truther community has been positive. "A dozen brilliant lights—one for each of the 12 charges used to bring down the World Trade Center—boldly shine their truth upon our ignorant world," read a review of the memorial on the website IlluminatiFAQs.com. "Perhaps most profound is the eternal flame, placed directly beneath a beam of reinforced steel to remind us there's no way burning jet fuel can melt steel, as the main stream media would have us believe."

'Larry Law compiled and edited a series of small 'pocketbooks' in the late 1970s/early 1980s entitled 'Spectacular Times'. They serve as a brief introduction to the ideas of Situationism.' -- 2+2=4.5

'"The president still wants to continue his dialogue with the American people," Pfeiffer said. "However, he's been getting really into Nam June Paik lately, and is passionate about using new technologies and techniques to communicate his message of hope and progress." "And if he smashes the very foundations of modern consumerist culture while he's at it, then all the better," Pfeiffer added.'

'Big Science, like Big Pharma and Big Finance in the West just seems to get bigger and bigger. From our point of view, of course, these vast boondoggles are power elite dominant social themes. They may not be fear-based but they have a very important purpose in mind, which is to reinforce the idea that science is beyond the average person and only the state has the power and authority to provide the necessary resources in the modern era. This sort of bigness takes direct aim at the Misesian free-market thinking that has spawned the wonderful concept of Human Action – the idea that individuals acting freely can care for themselves and on occasion do great things, even understand the universe. This sort of subterranean dialogue is part and parcel of the power elite's endless attempts to mitigate this magnificent concept and whittle away at the confidence that people feel in pursuing intellectual endeavors on their own.'

'Behind every great idea is something simple at the core of every human is a sad, scared individual behind every brand is a simple idea. Everything feels so fragile. Should we keep the curtain up not knowing what is behind so the image stays carefully constructed or do we pull aside the curtain exposing the truth attempting to get vulnerable get real get raw. -- Follow the Buzzy Brick Road. Follow the Buzzy Brick Road. Follow, follow, follow, follow, Follow the Buzzy Brick Road. Follow the Buzzy Brick, Follow the Buzzy Brick, Follow the Buzzy Brick Road.'

'Was this a ‘real riot’? Are ‘hipsters’ from the United Kingdom more violent than American alts? Is London a hot bed of alternative angst? Do u think they were pissed because they still felt like the clothes were still ‘overpriced’? Did American Apparel ’stage’ this for marketing purposes?' -- Comment: Londoner: 'What is the best Am App outfit for a riot participant? Bullet-Proof Windbreakers / Headband of Strength / Canvas bag for stashing loot.'

Building out the Museum of Consumerism one storefront at a time? -- '...the installation of fake storefronts make downtown Tynesdale look less moribund than it really is.'

'Britain's educational system, health care system, media (state-run BBC) and economic system are dysfunctional to one degree or another. The country, according to its mainstream press, is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy and yet the spending continues. The central bank has screwed rates down as low as they can go, flooding the country with cheap money but the economy remains stubborn moribund... The solution, obviously, is to put false facades on empty commercial real estate in order to create the pretense of prosperity where none exists. -- ...once the "messaging" of the elite is exposed, the ability to leverage social control erodes. The result may then be the implementation of military conflict and other more malevolent mechanisms including domestic repression aimed at harassing and distracting an increasingly resentful and disbelieving populace. But in times of extreme technological and communications advances, these strategies may not work so well...'

'Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies: one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.' -- "Things become so grim that there's a retreat into self delusion." -- Excellent summary of progress already made along the road to serfdom, also an urgent warning of the rise of utopian christian fascism. It's a shame he calls for an equally utopian "militant" socialism to fight against it. Violence is violence is violence. Neither the left fist nor right fist can justify it.

'Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside. With 140 empty shops in the borough, council bosses think they have come up with a unique way of ensuring shopping areas remain as vibrant as possible. The first empty shop unit to be given a makeover with a "flat pack" shop front is in Whitley Bay. "It's an excellent way of promoting how a unit can be used, perhaps inspiring new businesses to come into the town."' -- Keep Calm And Carry On?

Plausible. "Because the entire system is losing all credibility." 'Alex breaks down what he thinks is the next real false flag attack on America, and it's going to be on none other than Obama himself.' -- Good analysis of Glenn Beck and the "left/right" rhetoric of American MSM.

"Osama™ is the gift that keeps giving. As long as Bin Laden™ is alive, we have him to point to as the enemy, sort of like Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984."

Al-Qaeda™ The Musical, Al-Qaeda™ Special Edition DVD Boxset, Al-Qaeda™ World Holiday Tours, Al-Qaeda™ 'Terror Tots' Training Camp, Make Me A CIA Operative, Osama-Factor, Al-Qaeda vs Celebrity Big Brother 3, Cell Swap, Al-Qaeda 360™ Terror Cell - Frag Online, Al-Qaeda For Men™, Al-Qaeda For Men™ Extra Strength, Al-Qaeda™ Fluoride-Free Afghan Mountain Bunker Mineral Water. "Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda!" WHEN IS THIS FAGGOTRY GOING TO END?!

Wake up and smell the pathocracy.

'...demands that political leaders ensure that we can live in womb-like Absolute Safety are delusional and destructive. Yet this is what the citizenry screams out every time something threatening happens: please, take more of our privacy away; monitor more of our communications; ban more of us from flying; engage in rituals to create the illusion of Strength; imprison more people without charges; take more and more control and power so you can Keep Us Safe. -- This is what inevitably happens to a citizenry that is fed a steady diet of fear and terror for years. It regresses into pure childhood. The 5-year-old laying awake in bed, frightened by monsters in the closet, who then crawls into his parents' bed to feel Protected and Safe... -- What makes all of this most ironic is that the American Founding was predicated on exactly the opposite mindset. The Constitution is grounded in the premise that there are other values and priorities more important than mere Safety.'

'...it is the third level that the power elite does not want noticed and that is MOST INTEGRAL to the promotion. ...global governance is at work. The best dominant social themes act as metaphors OF THEMSELVES. That is they are SEAMLESS promotions. This is why in some sense the Copenhagen conference was a success from a promotional standpoint no matter the outcome or inevitable finger-pointing. For two weeks the world—the entire world—was held hostage to the spectacle of hundreds of nations gathering in one place to solve a "problem." Never mind that the problem was phony. And never mind that carbon trading promises a huge additional layer of power and wealth for those who are involved. The real reason for the Copenhagen conference was to HAVE IT—to introduce once more the idea of nations and leaders gathered together to "solve" a problem on a global scale. The Copenhagen conference simply WAS. Its very organization and presentation reinforced—and made realer—global governance.'

'After watching this movie, opponents of spectacular capitalism will understand the importance of studying The Game of War. By playfully competing against each other over its board, they are learning the strategic and tactical skills required for success in the deadly struggle against the global bourgeoisie. In our film of Debord's game, Class Wargames has divided these teachings from the battlefield into five sections: terrain, combat, cavalry, arsenals and lines of communication. Analyse their insights with great care, fellow workers. As the crisis of neo-liberalism intensifies, you will need this military knowledge to thwart the wicked schemes of bankers and bureaucrats.'

Houser: “The game is set in a world that is like the world would be if it were the way the media says it is.”

#1. Anonymous speech is not a crime. #3. The era of personality-centric media needs to end- quickly, and (hopefully) painfully. Your shrill cries of "coward" in the face of anonymous or pseudonymous authors somehow implies that narcissism is equivalent to bravery. #4. You can't fight a dead model. It is not our fault or our problem that your business model is dead. We didn't kill it. You did. You killed it when you hired an audio producer to dub in dramatic music in times of financial crisis. You killed it when you started paying someone six-figures to create eye-catching graphics. Every dollar you spent on this nonsense was a dollar you took away from the newsroom. Is it any wonder that reporters at the Wall Street Journal are paid shameful trifles while "the talent" (for the unwashed, we mean the TV anchors) rival investment banking paychecks? -- ...you have hauled your audience down with you into the blackness of personality-dependence addiction.'

The horror... the horror... -- 'Government officials have not determined the source of the music or what it could portend, but they urge Americans to avoid deserted mansions, woods, and eerily quiet lake cabins.'

'Oil giants will be forced to tussle for contracts worth an estimated $16bn (£9.7bn) live on Iraqi television in a bizarre contest they fear could end up resembling a game show. More than 30 energy companies, including BP, Shell and ExxonMobil may be forced to make last-minute alliances and reveal their offers in a tense round of bidding due to start early next week. The scheme appeared to come as a shock to some of the major oil companies. Others admitted they "had an inkling" that Baghdad would conduct the process in the open but had not expected a televised spectacle.' -- It's just one big reality TV show with war/election/auction spin-offs. Sick.